Weather-strip.



No- '881,361. PATENTED MAR. 10, 1908. W. VAN HORN. WEATHER STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1907.

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To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, WILLIAM VAN HORN, citizen of the United States,residing at Piqua, in the county of Miami and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-Strips, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention, in common with like structures, has for its object toexclude the weather and to prevent the rattling of sash and likeslidably mounted closures.

The protecting means is of novel forma: tion and comprises a guide, aspring leaf and a spring bead, said parts being of integral formationwith the strip from which the article is formed, a longitudinal edgeportion of the strip being bent substantially as herein disclosed toprovide said part In the accompanying draw iorining a part of thespecification: l" in-e 1 1s a sec tional view of a portion of a windowframe or casing and the sash moun ted to slide therein, showing theapplication of the invention. Fig. 2 is a cross section of the weatherstrip.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the weather strip.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The weather strip is formed of sheet metal and may be of different sizesboth with respect to length and width. The metal strip is doubled orfolded upon itself at a point between its longitudinal edges to providean off-standing rib 1, the side walls or members of .which are spacedapart. The rib 1 is preferably hollow to admit of its sidewalls yieldingslightlyso as to maintain a close joint between them and the walls ofthe groove 2 provided in an edge of the stile 3 to receive the rib 1.The base portions at and 5 of the strip upon opposite sides of the rib 1are inthe same plane so to lie snugly against the inner face of the jambor casing 6. A. spring head 7 is provided at one edge of the strip bybending a longitudinal edgeportion thereof and a leaf or wing b extendsin ward from the free edge of the bead and normally stands away from thebase 5. The leaf orwing 8 is of a width to fit snugly between the rib 1and the spring head. 7 when is confined by means of the window stop 10,

n hie =..v(.-rlaps the same, asindicated inFig. 1. N: s or likefastenings 11 secure the base portion 5 of the weather strip and passthrough openings 12 therein, said openings being in register ,withcorresponding openings 13 formed in the spring leaf or wing 8. Theopenings 13 are larger than the openings 12 to admit of the heads of thefastenings 11 passing readily therethrough. The weather strip may beprovided in varying lengths and sizes and is adapted to be secured tothe jambs of the window frame or iike casing opposite to the run-waysprovided for the sliding sash or like closure. The edges of the stilesof the sash or like part, are formed with grooves 2 and rabbets 9corresponding to the ribs and spring beads 7 of the weather strip.

In the event of the, sash fitting snugly between the jambs of the windowframe, the spring leaves 8 will be repressed and the spring beadscorrespondingly contracted, but should the sash iit loose, theleavesorwings 8 will spring outward from the base portions 5 and the spring.heads 7. correspondingly expand, thereby insuring a close fit betweenthe sash and the jambs to the exclusion of wind and rain and obviatingrattling of the sash in windy weather.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A weather strip having a portion between its longitudinal edgesdoubled or folded to provide a rib and having an edge portion bent toprovide a spring bead and a spring leaf, the latter adapted to occupythe space between thespring bead and the said rib.

2.' In a window frame and sash, the combination of the sash or like parthaving a groove and a rabbet, a weather strip formed of sheei metalhaving a portion between its edges doubled or folded to provide a rib toenter the groove in the edge of the sash and having an edge portion bent10 provide a spring bead to enter the rabbet in the edge of the sash,and having a spring leaf projected from the free edge of the bead andnormally standing away from the base portion of the strip, the springleaf and the opposite base portion of the strip having correspondingopenings to receive fastenings, the openings in the spring leaf beinglarger than the open.- ings in the base portions to ermit the heads ofthe fastenings to pass free y therethrough,

the opposite ed e portion of the strip bein confined by a vi indow stop.h 10 In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

